Amanda Peet Quotes
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
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Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
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In those days 1955, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'
